Conan O’Brien will host tonight’s Academy Awards ceremony, which will try to balance frothy self-congratulation with serious reflection about the recent Los Angeles wildfires.

Stargazing is a bit of a tradeoff this month. The bad news is that sunsets in March are progressively later, and Daylight ...

It must be spring in San Francisco, with the clouds parting to reveal concerts taking over the city during Noise Pop Festival and SF Music Week. SFGATE’s weekly Fogcutter column chronicles the ...

On a dark and clear night, the sky can seem filled with stars, some shining brighter than others. But a few of those bright ...

On a recent Thursday afternoon, around five or six young people were busily preparing for an evening event at a street-side ...

A LUNAR lander has touched down on the surface of the moon in the first “fully successful” landing by a private space craft.

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